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Early this year my wife and I watched Venus Williams, one of the world's finest tennis players, compete in Hong Kong. During the match several young men sitting near us kept referring in Cantonese to Williams as "black demon," as well as another unprintable epithet. They shut up when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Race to Judgment | 10/8/2008 | See Source »

• Anchored NBC Nightly News from 1983 until 2004, when Brian Williams took over

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tom Brokaw | 10/7/2008 | See Source »

Ask anybody to name the six starting offensive linemen on the Harvard football team and chances are you’d probably get blank stares even from the Crimson faithful. While senior quarterback Chris Pizzotti and junior wide receiver Matt Luft may be the big men on campus, itâ?...

Author: By Kevin T. Chen, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Big Men Up Front New Big Men on Campus | 10/6/2008 | See Source »

Chris Williams, a program officer at the Gates Foundation, says that's because Ed in '08 "has been able to get the job done on less." One measure of the campaign's success: having had either John McCain or Barack Obama sign on to all three of Ed in '08...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Early End to the '08 (Education) Campaign | 10/4/2008 | See Source »

Williams says the project has achieved its stated goals on a much slimmer budget and still has sufficient funds to sustain the campaign through March 2009, its original end date. Of the initial $60 million pledge, he adds, "That was always an 'up to' aspirational goal." The Broad Foundation did...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Early End to the '08 (Education) Campaign | 10/4/2008 | See Source »

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